In the war of words, Ann Coulter has done it again. I completely question my decision to discuss this person, as I mostly believe she is just trying to seek attention rather than falling prey to her very own self-professed ideologies.

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Back in September, Edwin Davis had a dream. Not the scary kind that bolts you out of the bed in a cold sweat, but the kind of dream that’s more like a vision.

Davis, a retired Ruston veterinarian, had seen the joy that playing ordinary sports brought to special-needs children. He has a Down syndrome grandson. Why, Davis wondered, couldn’t the same exuberance his grandson experienced in Texas be duplicated for special-needs youngsters in Ruston?

Remember the case of missing Grambling State University student Michelle McMullen?
Well, she’s missing no more.

McMullen was arrested in Oakland, Calif., in late January after being missing since September of 2008, when she disappeared during an investigation involving $2,000 missing from a church in Susquehana, Pa., where she had worked as an administrator.

After dropping off her son to friends in Harrisburg, Pa., on Sept. 29, 2008, McMullen was supposedly en route back to Grambling State University, where she was a student. But she never made it to Grambling.

You can feel it in the air — the crispness and freshness as you soak in the cooler temperatures and lower levels of humidity.

It can be seen in the falling pine needles, raining down and dusting over grassy yards like confetti as other trees’ leaves begin changing into hues of gold, orange and red, not unlike the brilliant sunsets we see this time of year.

Yes, it feels like fall has arrived in Lincoln Parish as air conditioners are turned off and windows are opened, releasing the musky staleness of a long summer.

Question: My husband and I have been meaning to get a financial plan together, but we kept putting it off. My mother recently died and left us with some money. How should we get started in financial planning?

Answer: My own pet theory of human motivation is that change is the hot poker in the backside of life that gets most of us off the dime.

Your chest tightens and your breath gets short — so you call the heart doctor.
One day you realize you have to get your wife to hold the newspaper on the other side of the room so you can read it — so you call the eye doctor.